CBS has renewed its veteran comedy, "How I Met Your Mother," for a somewhat surprising season 9. Fortunately for the continuity of the fairly serialized sitcom, all of the cast members -- including Jason Segel -- have agreed to return for at least one more year.

As first reported by Deadline.com, "HIMYM" is unofficially set for another season thanks to negotiations with the cast and producers working out positively for CBS. Cast deals were finalized just before a Friday (Dec. 21) deadline, despite rumors that Segel was unwilling to continue on the show.

Currently in the final year of contracts and the show's license deal with the network, the future of "How I Met Your Mother" always depended on the cooperation of those involved. The show's executive producers, Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, have been pushing for an early decision on renewal -- something necessary in a show that has to find the titular "mother" before the final episode.

Segel, who has begun a successful film career during the series' 8-year run, had reportedly been reluctantly to commit to a 9th year. Since the actor plays one half of a committed, happy couple, it would be tough to continue without him. Reports indicate that the rest of the cast's desire to continue may have influenced Jason Segel to re-sign.

Right there with you, except I saw one episode with Britney Spears on a plane. It wasn't bad. But, hey, if they can maintain it for nine season, more power to them.

And more power to the show I do watch, "The Big Bang Theory" to try to outlast them. (I don't forsee anyone on that show breaking into big pictures any time soon. Not even Sheldon, whose popularity stems as much from the character as the person playing him.)

Yuk! Can’t stand that show. Sorry but the star being a queer and playing a straight just don’t do it for me. He would be better at playing a queer.
And, he just is not funny. The show might be better with another actor.

Need more comedies. Black or white, as long as they’re not corn-ball.

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posted on 12/23/2012 6:10:16 PM PST
by TribalPrincess2U
(0bama's agendaDivide and conquer. FREEDOM OR FREE STUFF- YOU GET ONE CHOICE, CHOOSE WISELY)

I am always suspicious of threads like this being more viral promotion than cultural observation.Hadn't thought of that but given the posts supporting the show, I'd say that either you're correct or the teenage freepers are out in force tonight.

Are you going to not watch The Godfather just because real life Brando was bi?

Exactly. And there are many examples of gay actors who played straight roles, Rock Hudson comes to mind and yes, it is strange watching a movie like Giant now knowing that Rock Hudson was gay IRL but that doesnt diminish my enjoyment of him in that role in that film and in many of his other movies and the TV show McMillan & Wife.

Some have alleged that the five times married Cary Grant was bisexual and that his roommate and lifelong friend Randolph Scott was once his lover. I dont know if thats true or not, I tend to think not. But frankly I dont care. When I watch North By Northwest or To Catch A Thief, all I know is that as a little girl, Cary Grant made me feel all tingly even as then I didnt understand why. Cary Grant still makes me feel all tingly  sigh : )

IIRC, Tom Selleck played a gay character in the movie In & Out but that doesnt diminish what I think of him as a person, a very conservative man, a faithful husband, an NRA spokesman, big supporter of 2nd Amendment Rights and by all accounts a really stand up and likeable guy.

George C. Scott was a brilliant actor but also a notorious drunk, cursed as to make a sailor blush, was married multiple times, was a womanizer and by many accounts of the people who worked with him, not a very nice person. But he was brilliant in Dr. Strange Love, a movie which many consider a very anti-war film yet did an equally brilliant in job portraying General Patton just a few years later and his A Christmas Carole is a close second to my favorite, the 1951 version with Alastair Sim.

Even knowing Paul Newmans politics, he was also a great actor and I enjoy a great many of his films and as much as I disagreed with Paul Newmans politics, by all accounts he was a nice guy, very down to earth and very devoted to his wife Joanne Woodward. The recently departed Larry Hagman was known for his role as oil tycoon JR Ewing but in RL was a rabid environmentalist. Mel Gibson has made some good movies but in recent years his personal life has become a complete train wreck. Both Hagman and Gibson and Scott battled alcoholism FWIW.

When I watch How I Met Your Mother, I see the character of Barney Stinson, the self centered womanizer, a character who is unlikeable yet likable at the same time (no easy feat for any actor) and not the actor Neil Patrick Harris who is gay IRL, and yes, I think NPH is brilliant in that role, and thats why "It's called acting, dear boy".

If I only watched movies and TV shows whos cast, crew and writers were entirely composed of straight, entirely upstanding moral conservatives, what would that leave me to watch? Perhaps Walker - Texas Ranger? Chuck Norris might be a good guy but is not a very good actor IMO and that show was simply awful, unwatchable. Just saying.

Yes. Every time a poster puts up a thread about a favorite TV show or movie the FR prudes come swarming in. Many criticize the program without ever seeing it. Were living in a golden age of TV and movies and I’m not going to cut my nose off to spite my face.....

Seriously?. I agree with MD. Apart for NPH playing straight (expected from what they pay him), he also manages to play layers to the character. There is the surface amoral, self-centered, schemimg womaniser, but that character is also recognised in-show, from the very first episode,as "the lamest single person alive (and that was his best friend talking). And that both of those personas are no more the real Barney that the suits he claims define him (in fact they are suits he wears to avoid being the loser he fears he is.)

Seriously? I agree with MD. Apart for NPH playing straight (expected from what they pay him), he also manages to play layers to the character. There is the surface amoral, self-centered, schemimg womaniser, but that character is also recognised in-show, from the very first episode,as "the lamest single person alive" (and that was his best friend talking). And that both of those personas are no more the real Barney that the suits he claims define him (in fact they are suits he wears to avoid being the loser he fears he is.)

Being in an older demographic (57 yo), I never see any of these shows during their initial runs on TV, especially if they are on the big 3 networks. I catch them mostly in re-runs on cable.

Many of them have their moments and are funny. But stepping back and taking the culture war into consideration and looking at the morals of America today, here is what jumps out at me ... very few, if any children in these serials. I see a bunch of selfish, self-centered, delayed-maturity adults who have lost, no, never had, the focus of family life. Yes, I know, I am a buzz-kill.

And yes, this applies to the so-called #1 show in the land, "NCIS". The only regular character who is married, and happy about it, is the director of NCIS.

I cannot help but think that constant exposure of this absence of happy heterosexual family life subliminally affects those in their 20's. And yes, this trend has been going on since the 1970s (even earlier if you happen to be a fan of "the soaps").

I cannot help but think that constant exposure of this absence of happy heterosexual family life subliminally affects those in their 20's

In most ways HIMYM is a subversion of all those shows.

First of all young lad, TV has never had happy heterosexual family life. In the 50s, there was no hetrosexuality because there was no sex - it was the 50s. In the 60s single parent family was the norm, but because divorce was still taboo, and women weren't allowed jobs, the message sent was - Your mom's gonna die, kid! In the 70s changing mores introduced the disappeared dad, simgle mother - lesson men are jerks. In the 80s you had Roseanne and families who stayed even though they shouldn't - marriage is a mistake. The 90s added to that with Sienfield and yes, even Friends when single is the dream, when you marry it's over.

On HIMYM, despite all the characters (except Marshall, but he's from Minnesota) coming from Divorced or Dysfunctional 70s and 80s TV families, happy heterosexual family life is not the end, it's the goal.

The character, Ted, is demanding perhaps too much perfection, and ironically will end up the last to marry

Ted: What if Cindy is the woman I'm supposed to marry and I'm just giving up? So long, elegant yet welcoming home in Westchester, with a sensible mortgage I can handle without dipping into my savings! Bye-bye, two kids I raised with a stern yet loving hand, finding the perfect balance between father and friend! Adios, triplet schnauzers Frank, Lloyd, and Wright—

Marshall, Lily, Robin: TED!!

But as the flashback format of the show shows, in 2030 he has all that.

Marshall and Lily who were less picky and settled for the the first person of the opposite sex they met in college are well on the way to recreating the family Marshall had in St Cloud, Minnesota - although perhaps not with the wife 15 year old Marshall wanted in his letter to his future self

Fifteen-year-old-Marshall: Your wife, let me break it down for you, dude. Your wife, blonde, six feet tall, huge rack, and she caters to your every whim. Marshall: Sorry, baby. Lily (none of that): That's okay. You just described your mother.

Yeah, perhaps not exactly family viewing, but Marshall reached for someone better, and Lily settled for someone who is definitely not her deadbeat dad, so it's all good.

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